MetaFilter: “Monkey hacks Diebold voting machine. Really.”

NPR: Pirate Rap Song “…an original Talk Like A Pirate holiday song, composed for All Things Considered by Spin magazine writer Chris Norris.”

The iPatch. (Update: Link went dead. Here’s another.

Remember! Talk Like A Pirate Day is Sunday, September 19.

Smelly robot eats flies to generate its own power!

“These are just a few examples of the robot influence of comic book art in our western culture. I have placed them in aphabetical order, not by date. Some date back to the early 1960’s. We can tell the chronological order by the price. These are the types of influences we had as children that have shaped our minds at an early and vulnerable age — that’s a scary thought!”